"A thought, once spoken, is a lie“ (Silentium! By Fyodor Tyutchev)
A thought, once spoken, is a lie.
A plan, once made, is doomed to failure,
A dream becomes its own jailer
Unteaching other dreams to fly.
A rhyme, once found, binds the word.
A step, once taken, ends the road,
A river dries because it flowed,
A song falls silent once it’s heard.
As lips, once kissed, become just lips,
So love fulfilled forgets its magic.
It is inevitable, tragic,
A story line for books and scripts.
Like cats inside the box sometimes
We live between unfinished lines.
About the Creator
Vadim Kagan
I believe that each day is a blessing, every story is amazing and all poems should rhyme!
Instagram: @wines_and_rhymes
Facebook: www.facebook.com/vadimkagan
Keep reading
More stories from Vadim Kagan and writers in Poets and other communities.
Pipe Dream
Last night I had a very vivid dream - I dreamed of joists and beams and pipes and wires, of marble white and black and gray and cream, of leaks and dust and accidental fires, of two by fours, three quarters, triple panes, cast iron, polished chrome and satin nickel, of polishes and finishes and grains, of lovers past - yes, Morpheus is fickle - of new beginnings for the older ends, of vintage but minimalistic faucets, of once but not again forever friends, of wooden deck with cables stretched across its unfinished length of brown ipe wood, of everything that hides behind the covers, of all the plans that were misunderstood, and then again of present perfect lovers - then I woke up all sweaty from the strife, and I admitted, paraphrasing Ovid: I’m glad that I was born to live this life, when all we got to struggle with is COVID.
By Vadim Kagan3 years ago in Poets
FPS: The Last Flame Challenge Winners
Welcome to our first Winners Announcement of the year and to the final challenge in the Fall Poetry Series. The Last Flame invited writers to sit with endings, using fire as a central image to consider what remains when something burns out: ash, warmth, memory, silence, or the faint promise of what comes next. The strongest pieces treated endings as gradual rather than sudden, allowing them to flicker, dim, and linger.
By Vocal Curation Team7 days ago in Resources
Comments (2)
I like it my friend, good job 👍
This is a wonderful piece. Really well done.